Released on: October 7, 2008, 11:54 pm

Press Release Author: Jim Turner

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Novel Written In Ernest Hemingways Attic Sums Up The Hard
Times We Are Living Through. Novelist William Elliott Hazelgrove Spent Ten Years
Finding New Voice.


Press Release Body: Oak Park, IL, October, 08,2008 -- Novelist William Elliott
Hazelgrove,went up into Ernest Hemingways attic ten years ago to a fanfare of media
ranging from Robert Siegel All Things Considered to a half page feature in the New
York Times. The promised goal was to produce a novel entitled Hemingways Attic. But
ten years later that is now what the forty eight year old author came down with. "I
spent a lot of time up there trying to find a new voice and I wrote three other
novels doing it," the author said on the porch of the Victorian home in Oak Park
that is the birthplace to Ernest Hemingway.

"I had written three other novels, but I wanted to produce something about the times
we are living in now. A writer sooner or later has to come to grips with his own
time." That put Hazelgrove on a quest that stretched over ten years and a lot of
hard times. "During all this my family is growing, we moved into another house and
like the rest of the country we were struggling.

I think something my father said to me resonated and that was I had to get myself
into the book." Doing that was no easy task, but one day the writer started with a
new voice that became the main character, Dale Hammer. "He's a middle class guy who
is in danger of losing his home, trying to be a good father and provider and it all
comes apart in one week.

Rocket Man was the result, due to be published in December, but early reviews are
already calling it a novel about the "death of the American Dream. "I have had men
call me and tell me they laughed, because it is a satire, but also that they cried.
That surprised me."
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